Latest Posts from Jordi Stephenson

Virgil Abloh “Watch the Throne”

Kanye West and JayZ’s album Watch the Throne is one of the more notable pieces of rap from the 2010s. Serving as the creative Director of the project, Virgil Abloh designed the cover art for it, Which features a gold surface with engraving details. Using 4 way symmetry with the corners, the cover has a…

Virgil Abloh “The-Ten”

Virgil Abloh’s “The-Ten” for Nike is one of the most influential and iconic projects by this designer, and ever. “The-Ten” is Virgils take on ten of Nikes most iconic Sneaker silhouettes, including the Blazer, Air Jordan I, Air Max 90, Air Presto, Air VaporMax, Converse Chuck Taylor, Air Force 1, React Hyperdunk, Air Max 97,…

Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh is a very popular modern day designer. He was born on September 20th, 1980 in Illinois, just outside of Rockford. His Parents were Ghanian immigrants who raised him and his sister. He attended Boylan Catholic High School and graduated in 1998. His Mother was a seamstress (someone who sews and makes garments) and…

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver includes a title sequence at the beginning like a lot of films do. The Intro title sequence serves as a sort of “pre movie” credit roll; showing the lead actors, the directors, and the cinematographer. There are plenty of design elements used throughout that give way for the film, and set…

Navigating FL Studio

FL Studio is a software used to navigate through different sound samples and arrange them into what many would call music. It can be used for many other things, not just music. It can be used for audio editing, Audio creation, and audio mixing. It is one of many DAWs found on the internet (digital…

Sneakers

Neil Summerour created this font in 2005, and released it in 2006. Since then, Neil has been wanting to revamp the font to a new, more modern, version. He finished “Sneakers MAX” in 2019 and released it the same year. Neil has produced about 60 typeface families and plenty more custom ones for clients around the…